open standards

The fight over who gets paid when an AI buys something for you has moved from whiteboard demos to production code — and the industry is splitting into two clear camps. One camp, led by Google and a coalition of more than sixty incumbents, is building an open, standards-first path that stitches...

LibreOffice has gone on the offensive — not just at Microsoft but at a fellow office-suite vendor — accusing ONLYOFFICE of being “fake open‑source” and partnering with Microsoft in a way that, LibreOffice says, reinforces format-based vendor lock‑in for users and governments alike. The Document...

The Bentasksley Tech Summit (BTS25) signaled a decisive shift in how Bentley Systems designs, tests, and refines infrastructure software — moving from product pitches to workflow co-creation, and from top-down roadmaps to collaborative, real-world problem solving with the engineers who actually...

Google’s NRF keynote punctuated a turning point: the company rolled out the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and a new Direct Offers ad product, staking a claim that open standards — not single‑vendor lock‑in — should be the plumbing for the emerging age of agentic commerce. Background /...

Microsoft has turned its Copilot chat experience into a functioning checkout lane, enabling in-chat purchases through new integrations with Shopify, PayPal and Etsy and rolling out a U.S.-first Copilot Checkout that keeps merchants as the merchant of record while collapsing discovery-to-purchase...

Google Cloud’s climb to the top of Gartner’s inaugural 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms — and its claim to be positioned highest for Ability to Execute — marks a pivotal moment in the enterprise AI arms race, but the real story is deeper: it’s a tactical victory built...

NinjaTech AI’s announcement that it has joined the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver member marks a tactical move by a small but ambitious agentic-AI vendor into the heart of the industry’s push for open, interoperable agent infrastructure. The AAIF launch bundles...

Anthropic’s donation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to a new, Linux Foundation–backed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) marks a coordinated industry push to wire AI agents into the same kind of open, interoperable plumbing that made the web scale — and it forces enterprise IT teams to confront...

The Linux Foundation has launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new neutral stewarding body meant to anchor open standards for interoperable, safety-minded AI agents — with Anthropic donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block contributing the goose agent framework, and OpenAI placing...

The Linux Foundation, joined by industry heavyweights including Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Block, today announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — a vendor-neutral steward intended to accelerate open standards, interoperability and governance for agentic AI, and to house...

Microsoft’s newest push at the OCP Global Summit marks a deliberate pivot from proprietary scale to open, standardized frontier-scale AI infrastructure—a campaign built around power stabilization, liquid cooling at rack and facility scale, unified networking for scale-up fabrics, hardened...

Microsoft’s latest moves to decouple Teams from its flagship productivity suites mark a watershed moment in how dominant software vendors respond to regulatory pressure — and could redraw the economic map for collaboration tools, enterprise procurement, and platform integration worldwide. The...

The White House’s latest tech summit ended not with a policy white paper but with a photograph: senior executives from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Apple and other Silicon Valley heavyweights gathered at a dinner hosted by First Lady Melania Trump to endorse a national AI education push, pledge...

Today’s White House meeting of the AI Education Task Force produced one of the most consequential coalition-building moments yet between the federal government and a major tech vendor: Microsoft unveiled a broad package of commitments — from free access to Copilot-infused Microsoft 365 for U.S...

CISA’s release of “A Shared Vision of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for Cybersecurity” marks a deliberate, coordinated push to normalize software composition transparency across governments, suppliers, and operators — a concrete step toward reducing systemic risk in the software supply chain...

California’s new statewide AI education initiative — a public‑private push that ropes in Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM and other major vendors to deliver free AI courses, tools and credentials to millions of learners — marks one of the most ambitious attempts by any U.S. state to fold artificial...

Cloudflare and Microsoft have launched a practical path for websites to become “AI-search friendly,” combining Microsoft’s open NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s AutoRAG retrieval engine so sites can answer plain‑language questions for both human visitors and AI agents via standard endpoints like...

Microsoft’s DocumentDB — the open, PostgreSQL‑backed document database Microsoft launched earlier this year — has formally moved under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation, a shift that promises broader vendor neutrality, a clearer governance model, and a path toward an open standard for...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio has reached a new milestone for AI-assisted development: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now generally available in the IDE, enabling developers to plug Copilot and other agentic tools directly into local and remote services with first-class configuration...

Canadian universities are moving quickly to put generative AI into the hands of students, faculty and staff — but the rollout is pragmatic, uneven, and loaded with trade-offs that will shape teaching, research and institutional risk for years to come. Overview Across Canada, flagship...